| The first excerpt represents the past or something you must release, and is drawn from The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin: account to kill the black-necked swan -- a bird of
passage, which probably brought with it the wisdom learnt
in foreign countries.
I may add that, according to Du Bois, all the birds at
Bourbon in 1571-72, with the exception of the flamingoes
and geese, were so extremely tame, that they could be caught
by the hand, or killed in any number with a stick. Again,
at Tristan d'Acunha in the Atlantic, Carmichael [6] states that
the only two land-birds, a thrush and a bunting, were "so
tame as to suffer themselves to be caught with a hand-net."
From these several facts we may, I think, conclude, first, that
The Voyage of the Beagle |
The second excerpt represents the present or the deciding factor of the moment, and is drawn from Sons of the Soil by Honore de Balzac: him have his breakfast," she added, looking at the footman. "Where do
you sleep, my child?"
"Anywhere, madame; under the stars in summer, and wherever they'll let
us in winter."
"How old are you?"
"Twelve."
"There is still time to bring him up to better ways," said the
countess to her husband.
"He will make a good soldier," said the general, gruffly; "he is well
toughened. I went through that kind of thing myself, and here I am."
"Excuse me, general, I don't belong to nobody," said the boy. "I can't
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The third excerpt represents the future or something you must embrace, and is drawn from A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay: gigantic, far - distant star, which was to be their sun from now
onward. He frowned, shivered slightly, and got in beside Nightspore.
Krag clambered past them onto his pilot's seat. He threw the
flashlight through the open door, which was then carefully closed,
fastened, and screwed up.
He pulled the starting lever. The torpedo glided gently from its
platform, and passed rather slowly away from the tower, seaward. Its
speed increased sensibly, though not excessively, until the
approximate limits of the earth's atmosphere were reached. Krag then
released the speed valve, and the car sped on its way with a velocity
more nearly approaching that of thought than of light.
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